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Cather Studies
American author Willa Cather was born and spent her first nine years in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Here, as an observant daughter of a privileged white family, Cather first…
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Discusses topics ranging from Cather’s pictorial sources to her familiarity with Dante and Russian literature.
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Includes essays on Cather’s response to the cultural pessimism of Oswald Spengler, her affinities to Alphonse Daudet, and aspects of her art in My Antonia , The Professor’s House…
Demonstrates the range of topics and approaches in contemporary discussions of Willa Cather’s work, suitable for the informed reader or the specialized student. This title, featuring 14 essays, examines Cather’s…
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Over the five decades of her writing career, Willa Cather responded to, and entered into dialogue with, shifts in the terrain of American life. Cather Studies, Volume 12 shows that…
Explores Willa Cather’s iconic status and its problems within popular and literary culture. This work states that not only are Cather’s own life and work subject to enshrinement, but as…
The wide-ranging essays collected in this volume of Cather Studies examine Willa Cather’s unique artistic relationship to the environment. Under the theoretical rubric of ecocriticism, these essays focus on Cather’s…
Cather Studies, Volume 13 explores the myriad ways Willa Cather’s writing career was shaped by the decade she lived in Pittsburgh (1896-1906) and the artistic, professional, and personal connections that…
Divided into two sections, the essays in Cather Studies, Volume 9 examine Willa Cather as an author with an innovative receptivity to modern cultures and a powerful affinity with the…
Explores, with textual specificity and historical alertness, the question of how the cultures of the nineteenth century - the cultures that shaped Willa Cather’s childhood, animated her education, supplied her…
Examines Willa Cather’s position in time, in aesthetics, and in the world. Born a Victorian in 1873, Cather made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she wrote…
The essays in Cather Studies, Volume 8 explore the many locales and cultures informing Willa Cather’s fiction. This new volume pairs Cather innovatively with additional influences - theological, aesthetic, even…
Examining the influence of French Canada and French culture on Willa Cather, this is a collection of essays.
Part of a body of scholarship that seeks to undo Willa Cather’s longstanding reputation as a writer who remained aloof from the cultural issues of her day, this collection demonstrates…
Jo Ann Middleton
Willa Cather’s Modernism challenges the assumption that Cather was an old-fashioned exponent of styles of fiction, demonstrating instead that Cather was clearly aware of the experimentation within the modernist movement…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Willa Cather’s My Antonia, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
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A Study Guide for Willa Cather’s A Wagner Matinee, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Willa Cather’s Neighbor Rosicky, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Willa Cather’s Paul’s Case, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literary Themes for Students: The American Dream.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
A Study Guide for Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
A Study Guide for Willa Sibert Cather’s The Diamond Mine, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Willa Cather
Presents a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. This work concludes, Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what…
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Willa Cather, who received a Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Titles in this study guide include…
Marianne Davidson
As a study in intertextuality this book reads Willa Carthy’s novel Lucy Gayheart through the prism of Franz Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise (Winter Journey). With introspective sensibilities determining the central…
The Buddhist Art Forum - a major international gathering that explored the interrelation between the nature, creation, function, and conservation of Buddhist art from its earliest manifestations to the present.
